So, sure, that was embarrassing, and now I can't shop for croissants without being shadowed by Billy the stock boy, but the good news is that bakeries have a line, and one that will not be crossed. Which is a relief, because otherwise these cakes might have had me worried.

Bazinga.

Fortunately there's nothing suggestive about balls or bases or long wooden...

Same reaction here: what IS that first one supposed to be? Since it's Thanksgiving week, I was trying to make a turkey out of it . . . an abstract, minimalist turkey. My husband thought it was a fire cracker. But we all know what it REALLY is. . . Yikes.

That first one... I suppose it's a carrot? Or maybe a palm tree? Though the colors do indicate Thanksgiving... I mean, nobody would leave a piece of turd that looks like a tonker on cake. Right? Right??

In case we needed further proof of the awfulness of cake #1 -- it really takes something super terrible to distract everyone from commenting on a birthday cake with a phallic design drawn on it in flesh colored icing.

I'm a little disappointed that many of these cakes seem to be turning towards the inappropriate. I used to look at these with little kids for a laugh but this is entirely too inappropriate to share now, and there have been far too many of these for me to chalk it up to one or two funny occurrences. Sorry but I'm afraid I may have to stop following, which is a shame because I love this site, but I can't approve this for kids anymore.

@ Beth G - I always put a warning on any PG-rated posts, so you're free to simply skip over those with more "adult" content. The warnings are there because *I* don't approve of the content for little kids, either. This is not a children's blog; the majority of my readers are adults, like me. You'll find ding-a-ling cakes throughout all the CW archives, dating back to the very beginning of the blog over 2 yrs ago. I'm sorry if it seems they're more frequent, though!

And I don't understand why these aren't kid-friendly. It's icing that kinda looks like willies, and unless you want to deny the existence of a part of the anatomy possessed by 50% of the population of the planet, I see nothing wrong with giggling at that. There's nothing pornographic here, and I can guarantee that just about every child giggles at willy and booby jokes on the playground at school anyway...

My old bakery had a rule about suggestive cakes are well - but some still slipped through with a few of our older decorators. I caught one of them working on a cake that had a scan of the 'shocker' hand sign with the line "It's your 30th Birthday. I hope it's not a SHOCKER!" Trying to explain what it meant with the little Spanish I had was painful, but her expression, once she understood, was hysterical. Yes, we still had to finish the cake since we did accept the order.

Knowing some of our other bakers, it wouldn't surprise me if a few of these cakes were deliberate.

Yay, someone else threatens to stop following cake wrecks because it's too smutty... Beth, stop being such a prude. I take it you've stopped traveling since a genital pat down has become the norm in the us of a too? Keep up the funny posts Jen and John, my inner 13 year old boy us in hysterics after today's post!

It just so happens that I have spent this afternoon lamenting the, uh, Freudian nature of my child's artwork (A lightsaber? Okie dokie...),and now you're showing off your bazinga. And it's only Monday. Sick, wrong and wonderful!

Funny how this would be the day that my 16 yr old son would decide to read the CW with me.

Neither of us has an explanation for the first cake other than... what was that someone said?... a 'tonker'?? I'll have to remember that term next I'm in company of the church ladies.

Though for the life of me, why there are streams from the bottom...

*sigh* I live with too many males. I don't find the cakes shocking, but I do find the ignorance of the wreckerators unbelieveable. As in, I do NOT believe they didn't know exACTly what they were piping.

I don't think I've ever seen a baseball bat with perpendicular posts?

I'm also thinking the baby on blue was asking where his carrot was. Just cuz.

Another reader who enjoys reliving her crude-minded youth!! Thank you!

First one... OK, that just HAD to be what it looks like. It's far to accurate a portrayal to be merely accidental (like the multiple baseball bats you've shown here... seriously, does ANYBODY ever get a baseball bat looking like, well, a baseball bat???). I am assuming that the fact that it looks like a rocket soaring reflects the, um, pleasure the wreckerator experienced the previous night. And figured that'd be less crude than fireworks coming from the tip?

I am a bit concerned about the proportions of cake #2... and I think the wreckerator of #3 has spent even less time on a basketball court than I have. Clearly he/she is as familiar with that sport as they are with lightsabers!

And for Spidey... um, how come nobody's commented on the icing splotches below him?

And the last one... good grief, it's well done, so what happened to to create that large blue leaning, "item"?! And, I'm assuming the baby was added after the fact, as a nod to CW's carrot jockey?

Oh please those ladies wouldn't do a sexual harassment cake but probably would put penises on their cakes lol. Just like these wreckerators did. I say they do it on purpose just to mess with the customers minds..dies laughing.

turn your computer upside down get veeeery close to the screen and the brown "what the hell is that" on either side become wings!yes, it´s a SPACE SHUTTLE!i think they put on baby spok as a reference to the carrot jockeys and when finished, realized: " oh.my.god.WAT DID WE DO?! "wrecked a cakewreck reference, how cool is that?!

Re: the first cake, I do believe it IS a firecracker, badly done (and clear out your piping nozzle -- there's a little clog that produced that sort of, well, vein... eww) and photographed upside-down. There is actually a small orange wick coming out of the end, in the middle of all the "sparkley-" things. But I wouldn't eliminate the possibility of some double-entendre mischief on the part of the wreckerator, either.

I'm gonna say the first cake is upside down and it's a stick of dynamite. Like ACME brand, from Roadrunner cartoons. I mean, obviously it's a penis, but I think it might supposed to be dynamite... it has a fuse? Anyone one with me?

Oh, this is my favorite type of post! I love it when people get offended and threaten to not follow you anymore! Come on people, lighten up and have a good laugh! Keep up the hard work, or maybe I should say good work....

Anyone remember that scene from one of the movies where Spidey's web wouldn't spin and he had to share an elevator ride with this guy who wanted to know where he got the outfit...? Anyway... remember how the Spidey told the guy that "it gets kinda *itchy*"....and that "it rides up﻿ in the crotch a little bit too"??? That's what that spidey cake reminds me of.

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